Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEPatients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.
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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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Geography is destiny.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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